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Weona Junction, Arkansas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lunsford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72472. The Survey maps it on the McCormick quadrangle.

Weona Junction within Poinsett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Weona Junction between 1999 and 2010, burning about 580 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2001Recreation and ceremony14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 April 2010Debris and open burning32 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 April 2003Arson/incendiarism40 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
16 March 2006Debris and open burning19 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 November 2005Debris and open burning450 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionBRADFORD
15 January 2002Debris and open burning15 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Poinsett County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Weona Junction: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Poinsett County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Engman (historical)1.2 miles9
Anderson Tully1.5 miles13
Stewart2.1 miles13
Old Weona2.4 miles9
Weona2.7 miles9
Arthur (historical)3.6 miles13
Landers4.3 miles9
Whitaker4.9 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122554700The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 82843. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.